Volleyball match with transgender player gets huge last-minute location change amid security controversies

An upcoming arguable NCAA women's volleyball match volition determination its determination implicit 200 miles from Reno, Nevada to the Bay Area successful California. 

San Jose State's upcoming crippled against the University of Nevada has been astatine the halfway of a nationalist statement connected transgender inclusion successful women's sports. And now, a lucifer that was antecedently going to beryllium played connected Nevada's location field volition beryllium played astatine San Jose's Yosh Uchida Hall. 

"The Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball lucifer betwixt Nevada and San José State University scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, has been moved from Reno, Nevada, to San José, California. The determination to determination the determination of the lucifer has been made successful the champion involvement of some programs and the well-being of the student-athletes, coaches, diversion unit and spectators. The determination has been made with the support of the Mountain West Conference," work a associated connection that was obtained by Fox News Digital from some San Jose State and Nevada's spokespeople.

There is nary warrant that this lucifer volition adjacent beryllium played. 

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Nevada Wolf Pack women's volleyball players with Sam Brown and Tulsi Gabbard. (Sam Brown Campaign)

Nevada players person expressed their tendency not to play the match, some privately to their diversion manager and publically to the press. San Jose State has a subordinate that has been identified arsenic a transgender, and different subordinate engaged successful a suit against the NCAA implicit ne'er being informed that her teammate was a biologic male. But the programme has not forfeited the lucifer officially, citing authorities law. 

Four different opposing programs forfeited their matches against the Spartans amid the ongoing controversy. Southern Utah, Boise State, Wyoming and Utah State each officially forfeited their scheduled games against San Jose State. 

Meanwhile, information concerns and threats against San Jose State players person made traveling for matches a high-risk endeavor for the woman Spartans. San Jose State antecedently confirmed to Fox News Digital that constabulary extortion was assigned to the team, soon aft getting the archetypal quality of an hostile forfeiting, erstwhile Southern Utah announced it would not play its lucifer against the Spartans successful September.

San Jose State subordinate Brooke Slusser has joined a suit headed by OutKick big and erstwhile collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines against the NCAA owed to its policies connected sex identity. Slusser joined this suit due to the fact that she claims that she has had to stock a court, locker country and adjacent a country connected overnight trips with her teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been told that Fleming was a biologic male. 

Slusser antecedently told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation that this has resulted successful threats against her.

"One of my teammates got a DM, fundamentally saying that she, and past my team, needed to support my region from maine connected gameday against Colorado State, due to the fact that it wasn’t going to beryllium a bully concern for maine to beryllium successful and that my squad needed to support their distance," Slusser told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview. "They needed to support their region from maine during the game, due to the fact that thing was going to hap to me.

"This was the archetypal carnal menace erstwhile we could easy spot that they wanted to physically harm 1 of us."

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Colorado State University constabulary down the San Jose State University Spartans seat show Moby Arena during an NCAA Mountain West women’s volleyball crippled betwixt the Spartans and the Colorado State Rams successful Fort Collins, Colo., connected Thursday, Oct. 03, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

This resulted successful a dense constabulary beingness during the Spartan's crippled astatine Colorado State connected Oct. 3, arsenic San Jose State has confirmed to Fox News Digital it has had to coordinate constabulary extortion for its players with different universities during distant games. 

During a crippled against Air Force Academy this past weekend, information astatine Cadet East Gym astatine the Air Force field successful Colorado was truthful alert, that it adjacent resulted successful arguable footage of an alleged enactment betwixt a instrumentality and a information guard. 

A instrumentality who attended the crippled alleged that the Air Force information made anyone who wore shirts successful protestation against transgender inclusion successful women's sports screen the messaging if they wanted to get wrong to ticker the match. Other witnesses person told Fox News Digital that they saw akin instances happen. 

"Air Force Athletics takes indispensable measures to supply a harmless situation astatine each location diversion events for players, coaches, unit and fans," an Air Force spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

San Jose State was scheduled to question each the mode to Reno aboriginal this week to play the Wolf Pack, with nary warrant that immoderate Nevada players would instrumentality the court. Nevada has told Fox News Digital that its players volition not beryllium disciplined for refusing to vie successful the upcoming match.

But Nevada has said it can't forfeit their upcoming lucifer due to the fact that of authorities law, the programme antecedently told Fox News Digital. 

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From beforehand near to right, San Jose State setter Brooke Slusser celebrates aft scoring a constituent with libero Randilyn Reeves, extracurricular hitter Blaire Fleming and libero Alessia Buffagni during the archetypal acceptable of an NCAA assemblage volleyball lucifer against Colorado State, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, successful Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

"The assemblage made the determination not to state a forfeiture and determination guardant with hosting the lucifer arsenic scheduled based connected respective factors. As a nationalist university, the assemblage is legally prohibited by Section 24 of the Nevada Constitution and different laws and regulations to state a forfeit for reasons related to sex individuality oregon expression," a Nevada spokesperson said. 

The Nevada authorities constitution was revised successful 2022 erstwhile Nevada voted to follow the Equal Rights Amendment, which added sex individuality to the database of protections. Nevada authorities Sen. Pat Spearman, a Democrat from North Las Vegas who co-sponsored the measure to get it connected the ballot, said the instrumentality has helped transgender radical support their identity.

So, forfeiting a crippled against San Jose State would person violated Nevada's authorities law. The different 4 programs that person already officially forfeited their matches implicit transgender subordinate are based successful states wherever determination are nary specified laws. In fact, Idaho, wherever Boise State is based, really has a authorities instrumentality to forestall transgender inclusion successful women's sports.

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